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Alterations in the mitochondrial displacement loop in lung cancers.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Nov 2003
Suzuki Makoto, Toyooka Shinichi, Miyajima Kuniharu, Iizasa Toshihiko, Fujisawa Takehiko, Bekele Nebiyou B, Gazdar Adi F
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Alterations of the noncoding displacement (D) loop of mitochondrial DNA are present in many cancers. These alterations include numerical changes in a homopolymeric C tract (PCT) at positions 303-309 and single base substitutions (SBS). We determined the frequency of D-loop alterations in lung cancer cell lines and tumors, and related them to clinicopathologic features. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We sequenced...
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